Cultural Reader

Artificial intelligence is not arriving as an alien intelligence that simply lands on top of human life, like a shiny corporate UFO with a s...

The interface is not a window. It is a weather system. It does not simply show us the world; it trains the body in how to approach the world...

In The New Jim Code: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination , scholar Ruha Benjamin asks a deceptively simple question wit...

Durkheim warned us, in the chilly prose of 19th-century sociology, that when a society loses its moral framework—its shared norms, its coll...

In recent decades, a new form of governance has emerged—one that operates not only through political institutions but through algorithms. In...

You can't log off your liver. You can't swipe away your spleen. And yet, every few months, someone tries to sell you on the fantasy ...

What is the technosphere? Think of the technosphere as Earth’s newest “sphere,” alongside the lithosphere and biosphere. It’s the vast, cou...

In the early 2000s, before social media had fully reshaped everyday life, Tiziana Terranova offered a prophetic diagnosis of the digital eco...

In 1944, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer famously declared that culture had become an industry. Art, once a realm of critical reflection a...

In the 1970s, Michel Foucault unsettled the idea that knowledge simply reflects reality. Instead, he argued that knowledge is produced —and ...

Data‑driven advertising isn’t just a new business model; it’s a cultural and political revolution. In her book The Age of Surveillance Capi...

Yanis Varoufakis’ Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism presents a bold thesis: capitalism, as we know it, is already dead, replaced by a...